People frequently ask me if the fact we keep information public can hurt our consulting business ? Lets keep aside for the moment amount of new business publishing this information brings to us but think it also have significant negative effect because people find information on MySQL Performance Blog and use it instead of purchasing [...]
Back from company meeting in Hurghada, Egypt
December 12, 2007 By 8 Comments
So we’re back from the company meeting which took place last week in Hurghada, Egypt. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people for the first time in person to work together and have some fun.
Packing for company meeting in Egypt
November 29, 2007 By 5 Comments
Our company, Percona is even more Virtual than MySQL AB – we have no offices and 100% of staff members work out of their homes (or traveling, onsite with customers etc). We also probably have just couple of cities where more than one Employee lives. Working as a virtual company has a lot of benefits [...]
Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 22, 2007 By 12 Comments
Recently I had a case with a web server farm where a random node went down every few minutes. I don’t mean any of them rebooted except once or twice, but rather they were slowing down so much that practically stopped serving any requests and were being pulled out from the LVS cluster. The traffic [...]
MySQL: Data Storage or Data Processing
November 18, 2007 By 9 Comments
I was thinking today of how people tend to use MySQL in modern applications and it stroke me in many cases MySQL is not used to process the data, at least not on the large scale – instead it is used for data storage and light duty data retrieval. Even in this case however the [...]
HighLoad 2007 Review
October 6, 2007 By 1 Comment
Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it. Lets start with bright side. The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in their field. A lot of top Russian [...]
Speaking on HighLoad Conference, Moscow, Russia
September 3, 2007 By 6 Comments
HighLoad.RU is the conference focused on Building High Performance Systems and has speakers from most of top Russian Internet companies. It is taking place in Moscow, Russia 24-25 of September and you should know a bit of Russian to attend The conference has some international flavor though there are few people coming from other countries [...]
SpyLOG Was sold the other day, time to look back
August 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
Friends are pointing me to the article saying SpyLOG, the startup which I co-founded back in 1999 was sold the other day to the MasterHost. The amount is not disclosed but it is estimated to be $3M – amount not worth mentioning for USA market but quite decent one for Russian Internet Market. So I [...]
Linux failing to boot screen on the plane
May 4, 2007 By 5 Comments
I’ve seen Windows Blue Screen of Death, stalled boot process or simply application error dialog on many big information screens in shops, airports and other places as well in other systems such as cache machines, airport self checking systems or photo print kiosk. Today coming back from US on NorthWest Airbus A330 we got stalled [...]
Back from RIT2007
April 20, 2007 By 6 Comments
So I’m back from RIT2007 which took place April 16,17 in Moscow,Russia. The conference was well organized, while the conference center was a bit small for event – halls were jam packed during the breaks and there was limited sitting available for many sessions. It was great to see attendees from almost all serious Internet [...]
